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Now that I am writing again I am starting to think about my goals and my motivations. I’ve been writing since I could spell, really, before I could…

Dec 3

November 2023

What Future Am I Planning For?

During a conversation with my son a few months ago about the differences between grasshoppers and praying mantises my husband described the plot of A…

Nov 17

Crushing Monotony

Some time back I encountered a thread about Hans Christian Anderson’s rather complicated personal life that described him as “just a general train wreck…

Nov 15

Magical Thinking

Last night I finished reading Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You. It’s set in a high school boarding school with scenes moving between 1995…

Nov 7

Solvable on paper

Two years ago I posted on Facebook about how much I still missed livejournal, even all these years later. Not long after my time on LJ I joined another…

Nov 4

April 2023

Some things take time

I have been working on organizing my old poetry to make it available on a website again. I had some infrastructure for this already in the form of a…

Apr 21

Ruminating on Midlife

Last week I posted on facebook about my upcoming birthday. I’m turning forty-five at the end of the month and finding myself unusually bothered about…

Apr 15

October 2022

It's the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel ...

Actually, I’m not sure how I feel. Fine definitely isn’t it. Exhausted? Worried? Complacent?

Oct 5, 2022

July 2022

Today is Thursday. The top headline from the NY Times is “Supreme Court Limits E.P.A.’s Authority on Emissions”. A bit further down is “Case on State…

Jul 1, 2022

June 2022

Not Enough People

I am really struggling lately with isolation, with figuring out how to navigate a world where COVID is here to stay and mitigation is left to the…

Jun 18, 2022

January 2022

and the lack thereof

Jan 1, 2022

December 2021

Returning to Rumi

There is a Rumi poem that the Unitarian Universalists sing frequently: Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Ours is no…

Dec 17, 2021

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